Building Better Swimmers: Foods for Healthy Sperm

Dr. Steven Pratt, MD, FACS, ABIHM

With Steve’s guidance, we created the original SuperFoodsRx grouping of 25 foods crucial to optimum human health. A diet rich in these SuperFoods forms the central concept of our nutritional recommendations.

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It’s a dark and dangerous swim those sperm have to make to connect with an egg, so you should do what you can to make sure they’re as powerful as possible. While there are plenty of articles out there about women’s health — including SuperFoods for a stellar pregnancy — we’ve laid out a series of articles to help the man. They include:

This brings us to the last part of the series. If want to surround those sperm on their perilous journey with the most effective missile-defense system, then they need proper nutrition. While we’ve told you what those nutrients are, we haven’t said what foods contain those nutrients… until now.

Below is our list of foods for healthy sperm. There are certainly more items that could be included on this list, but it’s a great starting point.